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....Earth Biofuels lost $25.5 million in the year's first quarter, and $67.5 million in all of 2006...... (See link for rest of story)

The Intergalactic Motor Company You’re sitting on the couch quietly watching the game on Monday night, when a loud humming noise outside makes you run for the front door. You’re just in time to see a gigantic UFO fly directly overhead, headed right for town. You jump in your old car and follow the ship to a clearing just north of downtown. Just as you arrive the ship does a few playful rolls in the air, shoots light beams of every color and sounds some powerful musical notes. Just like Close Encounters you think, as you study the ship. The...

NEW YORK: Sasol Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of motor fuel from coal, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are in talks to provide technology for the first US plant that will produce diesel from waste coal. The plant will be in Gilberton, Pennsylvania, and will have capacity to produce 5,000bpd, John W Rich Jr, president of project developer WMPI Pty LLC, said this week in an interview. He said Eastman Chemical Co, which makes plastics from coal, may operate the plant, and Sasol and Shell may get a portion of sales by licensing their technology. Loan guarantees in the US...

In an address before a joint session of Congress on September 11, 1990: “It is Iraq against the world.” George H. W. Bush demands that Iraq pull out of Kuwait. Exactly eleven years later, on September, 11, 2001 a hijacker named “ATTA” takes over American Airlines flight 11, and crashes into the largest structures in America that happen to look like a giant “eleven”. I only have two questions: Why is the connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda not absolutely clear to everyone? How many ways do these people need to tell us before we get it? PS. 200 commuters...

A Dual Mode, High Efficiency Engine, Based on a Standard 4-Cylinder Block John R. Jamieson 4/28/2003 John R. Jamieson believes the engine configuration described in this paper is a unique and original idea. He hereby places this design in the Public Domain for the use of anyone who reduces the idea to practice. (Questions and comments may be addressed to JRJamieTX@wmconnect.com) Background: For the past 100 years, engineers have known that high efficiency, internal combustion engines have two features that we rarely use in our current designs: 1. Close match between the normal load and max load. Such a design...

GM's Hybrid Strategy By Warren Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 3, 2003; 1:07 PM DETROIT, Jan. 3 -- General Motors Corp. offered detailed plans today to boost the fuel economy of its most popular cars and trucks by as much as 50 percent, beginning with two pickup trucks in the 2003-model year. Overall gains in fuel economy will range from 15 percent to 50 percent, with the biggest increases going to the 2005 version of the compact Saturn VUE sport utility vehicle, GM officials said. As In Overdrive first reported last month, GM will rely on hybrid gas-electric...

Scion Launches First Two Products - xA and xB - at 2003 Greater Los Angeles Auto Show Thursday January 2, 6:00 pm ET LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Scion, the new car marque from Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc, today unveiled at the 2003 Greater Los Angeles Auto Show the xA and xB, the first two production models from the newest brand in the automotive industry. Both models will launch initially in California this June and will carry Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices (MSRP) below $16,000. "Scion is about personalization. It's about providing buyers with a personalized dealership experience,...

Bush Administration Planning to Extend Cuts of Diesel Emissions By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. ASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — In an effort to reduce a dangerous source of air pollution, the Bush administration is devising rules that would sharply cut diesel pollutants from construction vehicles, certain farming and mining equipment and other off-road vehicles. Environmental groups are hopeful that the standards, which may not take full effect for almost a decade, will continue the administration's stance against health hazards caused by diesel engines. Those policies, which include strong support of a Clinton administration plan to cut pollutants from trucks, buses and...

Ex-GM CEO makes "green" auto industry comeback Wednesday, December 04, 2002 By Michael Ellis, Reuters ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — Nearly 10 years to the day after he was pushed out as chief of General Motors Corp., Bob Stempel shoveled a handful of dirt to break ground on a new plant in Ohio that could make him a key player in a more environmentally friendly automotive industry. Stempel, 70, could easily have retired to a comfortable life after his tenure as chairman and chief of GM ended in October 1992 with a boardroom coup. But now as chairman of Energy Conversion...

DENTON, Texas -- A Denton County man was shot once and killed by someone with a high-powered rifle, police said. Investigators are probing possible links to the Washington D.C. sniper suspects. Billy Dillon, 37, was doing yard work outside his Denton County home when police said he was shot once and killed. Police said the shot came from a long distance, possibly by someone hiding in nearby woods, and that the caliber of the bullet matches those used in the sniper killings in the Washington D.C. area. Authorities said the Denton killing came during a period in which the whereabouts...

VW Lupo "3 liter":100mph, 4 seats, airbags, automatic transmission, available AC. 78.5mpg city, 104.6mpg highway, 94.5mpg combined. If we can get the sulfur out of US desiel fuel, we could have 'em now! (see link for details)

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DENVER (AP) -- Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film ``Deep Throat'' and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a car crash. She was 53. Boreman was taken to Denver Health Medical Center with massive trauma and internal injures after the April 3 accident, hospital spokeswoman Sara Spaulding said. She was taken off life support Monday, Spaulding said. Boreman's ex-husband, Larry Marchiano, said he and their two adult children were at the hospital when she died. ``Everyone might know her as something else, but we knew her as mom...

Interview just on FOX News about big bin Laden speech on video tape coming Thursday (18th); part of existing new tape, not yet broadcast. Waco and OK City were on April 19th? Israeli actions in Gaza and West Bank, late April last year.

100 mph, 1000-pound City Bombs Coming Next. Within a year or so, automakers from around the world will begin producing cars with 42-volt electrical systems. The industry is changing the standard 12-volt automobile voltage in order to replace hydraulic and mechanical systems with electronic ones. Steering, shifting, throttle, baking, etc will all become electronically controlled. Unfortunately the next ideal terrorist delivery device will automatically become available for less than the cost of a plane ticket. Terrorists will merely rent a late model car, connect a large bomb to the built in airbag detonation device connector. Connect a tiny blackbox interface...

2002 Ford Focus Diesel:quot;Out on the road, you can feel the benefit of the 206lb/ft of torque in the strong mid-range pull. There's no overboost, as in the Mondeo engine, and not much need for it. The hatchback gets to 62mph in 10.8 seconds, revs at around 2250rpm at an indicated 70mph on the motorway, and has an ultimate top speed of 120mph. Combined fuel consumption is 51.4mpg, and the CO2 emissions figure is down at 145g/km.quot;

Hi Efficiency Engine Design John Jamieson MIT67 I’ve been studying the reasons that modern internal combustion engines operate at 25 to 30% efficiency for the last year or so. There are basically three main areas that seem repairable but would lead to large efficiency increases. 1. Current engines are symmetrical stroke. They have the same compression ratio as exhaust ratio. About 10 to 1 is the limit for compression ratio with modern gasolines, but the ideal expansion ratio is more like 25 to 1. Atkinson realized this problem in 1896 and patented and built many engines to prove the concept. ...

Just got an email from friend in Conn. saying the radio there is talking about a new Clinton 18 year old girl friend from Israel. Can anyone verify the story?

Which Pollutes the Atmosphere More, a Gallon of Gasoline or a Gallon of Milk? John R. Jamieson MIT67, NASA67-94 retired EPA current regulations require that passenger cars generate no more than .09 grams/mile of hydrocarbons, 3.4 grams/mile of CO, and .4 grams/mile of NOX. In addition, cars must average at least 27.5 mpg. A 6 pound gallon of gasoline (plus 90 pounds of air) then is allowed to produce about (.09+3.4+.4)*27.5/454) pounds of pollutants. Or about a total of about a quarter of a pound (individually: .006 pounds hydrocarbon, .21 pound of CO, and .025 NOX). California’s and future national ...